Poverty

Roberta Gatti, Diego F. Angel-Urdinola, Joana Silva, Andras Bodor , The World Bank , 2011

This Quick Note provides an overview of the World Bank report “Striving for Better Jobs: the Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa.” The report was completed as a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests swept across the Arab world. Millions of young people were chanting “dignity” and “social justice” in the region, underlining deep-seated feelings of exclusion and inequality of opportunities.


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